Stop Submitting Giant PRs Nobody Wants to Review

You know that feeling when you open a PR and it’s 47 files changed, 3,000 lines? The reviewer sighs, skims it, leaves a comment like “looks good,” and merges it. No real feedback, nothing caught. That isn’t code review, it’s rubber-stamping. Stacked PRs are a way out of that trap. The Basic Idea Instead of one massive PR, you break the work into a chain. Each branch builds on the previous one, and each PR targets its parent branch rather than master directly. ...

February 27, 2026